Development News: Programming, New Languages, and Women's Stories
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-30 07:05:31 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-30 07:05:31 UTC
Programming
Adoption of Google's programming language is rapidly gaining on Java and others.
Hack
The new open-source programming language, Hack, is described by its Facebook developers as operating "seamlessly with PHP," adding that it "reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages."
Women
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There are rapidly growing feature set, high commit rates, and code contributions happening across the globe to Apache Hadoop and related Apache Software Foundation projects. However, the number of woman developers, committers, and Project Management Committee (PMC) members in this vast and diversified ecosystem are really diminutive. For the Hadoop project alone, only 5% out of 84 committers are women; and this has been the case for over the past 2 years.
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And when it comes to the open-source software industry, women are even harder to find. A recent study found that 1 out 10 open-source programmers are women (about 10%), and that's up from 2007, when only 2 out of every 100 were women (about 2%).
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During Grace Hopper 2013 on Open Source Day, we worked on more than 10 open source projects and had more than 250 attendees. Experienced women in tech were there to help teach other women how to do programming for their particular project or to work with them in a mentorship capacity. Each year we find that we fill up in terms of the number of attendees we can handle for the event! And then we have a waiting list. So, if this sounds like something you are excited about doing or you are interested in participating in, sign up for Open Source Day sooner rather than later to make sure that you get a spot.
"This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation," GitHub CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath wrote in a blog post on Sunday. "I would like to personally apologize to Julie. It's certain that there were things we could have done differently."
Recent Techrights' Posts
- "A single witness shall not rise up against a person regarding any wrongdoing or any sin that he commits; on the testimony of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed." (Deuteronomy 19-21)
- The spouse of Garrett repeatedly points out that Garrett can barely code or can only do so very poorly
- Rust People Sabotage Stability for the Sake of a Falsely-Promised 'Security'
- Set aside severe performance issues, poor handling of "edge cases", general bugs, lack of compatibility, and even crashes
- Huge Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO) This Coming Friday (May 1st)
- International Worker’s day
- Dr. Andy Farnell on Why Calling Slop or Chaff "Hey Hi" (AI) Harm Us All, Except for "Ten or Twenty Rich Industrialists"
- "words to avoid"
- Internet Trolls Likely Trying to Distract From the Demise of IBM, Problems With Red Hat
- there seems to be trolling online aimed at suppressing discussion
- Debian Upgrade Coming Up (Soon)
- Yesterday we contacted the datacentre staff about it
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- Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part IV - Shutting Down My Existence
- Would anyone out there tolerate such messages sent from burner accounts?
- Gemini Links 26/04/2026: Gemini Movie Database (or GeminiMDB) and Star Trek III
- Links for the day
- Weeks Before Linux Removed Over 100,000 Lines of Code Due to Slop 'Bug Reports' Microsoft Paid 'Linux' Foundation to Advance Slop in the Name of 'Security'
- What can possible go wrong? Both for security and for stability.
- Tracking Ages of People
- To stay "safe" tell us your age
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 25, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, April 25, 2026
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 57 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP Made the Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims a Lot Like Photocopies!
- They seem very much irritated that I speak about this
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- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 25/04/2026: Weekly Echoes, Gemtext Tables, and Using Offpunk
- Links for the day
- Corporate Media Did Not Specify What Microsoft Means by "Buyouts" (Layoffs), It May Be Hardly Different From Severance
- Time will tell, but investigative journalism hardly exists anymore, so we won't hold our breath
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part V - "Diversity" and "Inclusion" at EPO Means Sleeping With Sister of "Cocaine Communication Manager" and Making Them Millionaires
- Remember that top applicants or key stakeholders of the EPO are already complaining about a lack of quality
- Links 25/04/2026: Fake GAFAM Valuations (Gripping the Market Based on False Accounting), "Evidence Isn't Just for Research", and "Putin Defends Mobile Internet Outages"
- Links for the day
- Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part III - Threats From Burner Accounts Formally Treated as a Crime
- Countries that cannot preserve freedom from self-censorship are countries where free press ultimately cannot prevail
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 24, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, April 24, 2026
- Gemini Links 25/04/2026: 3.4k+ Capsules, Microsoft Layoffs, Call for Nuclear Disarmament, "Internet is Sad and Lonely"
- Links for the day
- Links 24/04/2026: Zelenskyy Says Ukraine's War Position "Most Stable", Samsung Workers on Strike Due to Pay
- Links for the day
- Recent Happenings at IBM Reaffirm Rumours About the CEO; He Might be Resigning (or Pushed Out) Soon
- If the rumours are true (no, we did not check those tax records for ourselves), it's not unthinkable that IBM is already doing what Apple did months ago
- Gemini Links 24/04/2026: Public Reticulum Gateway Node, Smol Computers, and Old E-mail
- Links for the day
- Links 24/04/2026: Intel Abandoning Computer Freedom (Even Further), Iran Reports That American Software and Hardware Remotely Sabotaged/Hijacked During War
- Links for the day
- 24/7 Wall St. Editor-In-Chief and CEO Calls IBM Is "America’s Worst Big Tech Company", Talent is Leaving, Supposedly Strategic Units Culled
- 21 hours ago by Douglas A. McIntyre
- The Great Wonders of Slop "Efficiency"
- Thankfully nothing was lost in the transmission and lots of work (datacentre emissions) got "done"
- IBM's Debt Increased Over $5 Billion in 3 Months While IBM Laid Off Many in Europe, US, Confluent, HashiCorp, and Red Hat
- An increase of $5,000,000,000+ in debt in just 3 months!
- IBMers Expect Another Giant Wave of Layoffs, Talk (and Sing) About the PIPs
- The media won't be covering the key facts
- Drama at the European Patent Office (EPO) This Week
- We'll be covering the EPO quite a lot this weekend and next week
- As We Predicted, Francophonie Countries in the EU and Outside the EU Dumping Microsoft for National Security Reasons
- We expected Belgium or some other Francophonie place to do so next
- Even to Microsoft Insiders It Seems Like XBox Has Already Died or Surrendered to the Japanese Companies
- Now the Microsoft layoffs are evident for people to see
- EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part VI - The Strikes Go On and On (Major Strike Today)
- We'll be covering this later today in relation to what the Office dubs "ethics"
- Absolutely Terrible Journalism About Microsoft Layoffs This Week
- 7 hours ago by Leila Sheridan
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 56 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP's Copy-Paste Machination for Garrett and Graveley
- Here is another straightforward example of their junior barrister overusing copy-paste on his Mac
- Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part II - Lawyers Are Not "Hired Guns" (and Should Never Act Like Ones)
- The matter is being investigated
- Nadella is Killing Microsoft. Slop Kills It Even Faster.
- A decade from now we'll look back at slop like we look back at skateboards
- Huge Microsoft Layoffs Coming Shortly (With Financial Report)
- There will be lots of slop layoffs. Be ready. It's a bubble.
- Gemini Links 24/04/2026: Data Breaches and Unofficial Gemini Protocol Specification Archive
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Offers About 10,000 of Its Senior American (Read: Expensive) Workers to be Laid Off
- How many slopfarms and media parrots play along?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 23, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, April 23, 2026
